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Wednesday, 19 December 2012

William Ovens

Today we received this fascinating email from Peter Fallon,
Over to Peter...

"Following on from recent blogs of Ashton Bros / Newton Street Hyde.

My
great great grandfather William Ovens who lived at 7 Newton Street
Hyde, who died in 1910 worked at Ashton Bros for a grand total of 72 years one month which was a record and possibly has not been surpassed in the UK.

Please find attached files with reference to this.

PS
Could you please put on your blog a request for anyone who may have
photos of Ovens Butchers Shops, there was one on Manchester Rd, one on
Mottram Rd also one on Market St.

Kind Regards"

Imagine telling 9 year olds today that they would have to start work and work for 72 years - the mind boggles !!

Barry in Oz. Looking at the original photo taken by S Searls of Market Street got me wondering. After Searls closed down, what would have happened to all the negatives of the thousands of photo's that were taken ? Or were there no negatives ?

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